World leaders agree to treaty to solve plastic waste crisis
The UN environment assembly resolution is being hailed as the biggest climate deal since the 2015 Paris accord.
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Canada refugee program offers glimmer of hope for Ukrainians fleeing war
Many Ukrainian-Canadians have families who have sought refuge in Poland, Romania and Hungary and will have to wait for days, maybe weeks, to have their visas processed.
Indigenous women lead conservation efforts in Canada
In Canada, Indigenous women are leading the charge to preserve biodiversity and fight climate change by heading up important new conservation initiatives.
Politicians weigh in as Bay du Nord decision remains on the table
Verdict on the $6.8-billion oil project off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador was expected to be released by March 6.
Poilievre's team attacks Charest's Conservative cred as his campaign takes shape
A Conservative senator from Quebec helping Pierre Poilievre try to win leadership of the party is criticizing Jean Charest as a "Conservative of convenience," who on Monday, March 7, 2022, nabbed an endorsement from another potential contender.
Non-citizens of Ukraine fail to qualify for temporary refuge from war in Canada
Masouma Tajik fled Taliban rule in Afghanistan in August, leaving her life and family behind at only 22 years old, carrying just one backpack. Last week, she left the new life she had built for herself over the past six months in Ukraine with only that same backpack in hand.
Despite the war, China says Russia is its chief 'strategic partner'
China’s Foreign Minister on Monday, March 7, 2022, refused to condemn the war and called Russia Beijing’s “most important strategic partner.”
Debris from cargo ship spill last fall spreading along B.C. coast
A volunteer organization that has been cleaning up debris from a cargo ship that lost 109 containers off the B.C. coast last fall says the incident should be a wake-up call to the need for more urgent action.
More privacy breaches in military sex misconduct settlement deal
The company overseeing the federal government’s $900-million settlement deal with military members who experienced sexual misconduct in uniform has admitted to more privacy breaches.
Ottawa leaving West Coast fishing sector to flounder after salmon closures, harvesters say
People in B.C.'s fishing sector are defaulting on loans and losing homes after massive closures to the salmon fishery, and are getting zero supports from Ottawa or the province, the fish harvesters union says.
Sowing fear over oil and gas supply as Russia invades Ukraine is ‘crass opportunism’: Elizabeth May
Canadian politicians and lobbyists are using the crisis in Ukraine to advocate for more fossil fuel expansion in a move of “crass opportunism,” said Green Party parliamentary leader Elizabeth May.
RBC tells shareholders to look the other way
RBC has a goal to lend $500 billion worth of "sustainable financing" by 2025. Now the bank is urging shareholders to reject a proposal that would stop it from including fossil fuel companies in that target.
Wealthy cool it while others sizzle
Journalist Jesse Winter ventured out with a thermometer during a heat wave last summer. The temperature differences between wealthy and poor neighbourhoods were staggering.
Europeans told to turn down the heat to reduce need for Russian gas
IEA says the reduction could help wean consumers off fuel that Russia is using as a weapon in Ukraine war.
Report urges researchers to study cannabis and mental health in Black communities
A long history of targeted drug law enforcement has left some in Canada’s Black communities wary of cannabis despite it now being legal, and it's a slow process to undo that trauma-informed stigma.